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NOTES AND QrERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 8. 1889. 



No 170. — CONTENTS. 



Pa«e 



NoTKs: — 



Seth Ward, by Rev. J. E. B. Mayor _ . . - jse-j 



Bishop Wetenhall's Works - - - - - - 271 



" Barry- More and the Du Barrls" ----- «73 



Crime aud its Cost in the Highlands preceding the " Forty-five " 274 



Note on Mr. Fronde's ■■ History of EuRland," by Archd. Weir - 274 



OidMother Louse, of Louse Hall, Oxford - - - - 275 



Minor Not i^s; — Grant from the Prior, &c. of St. John the Daptist 

 Without, Dublin, of Two Messuages in Kinsale to Richard 

 Konan — Fat Beasts — Snap-dragon, ftc. - - - - 276 



QuRRIES : — 



Chatterton, by George Pryce - - - - - - 276 



BIiNOB CJuF.iitEs : — " A Long History of a Shoit Session," &e — 

 Campbell's " Pleasures of Hope," Part I. — Execution of Domes- 

 tic Animals for Murder— Tlie" Cup of Love," Jkc. - - 278 



Minor Qcehies with Answers : — Vivat Oranje — Graveeend — 

 Greek Testament — Playing on th£ Salt-Box — Mr. Sympson, &c. 280 



Kkplibs : — 



Bishop Bedell, by J. Yeowell 281 



"The Riddle" 28-' 



Hanging the Broom at the Head of ths Mast - - - 282 



RErtiEs TO VliNon QuERiEa: _ Poetical Allusion — Scandal against 

 Queen Elizabeth — Cunt — " The whole Duty of a Christian," by 

 tic Author of the "Devout Communicant " — Cant Phrases — 

 Copse — " Dutra " and " Manicon " — Hugh Stuart Boyd, the 

 eminent Greek Scholar — Esquire: Cockade, &c. - - 283 



Notes on Books. &c. - - - - - - - 288 



SETH WARD. 



Some years since, Mr. Crosslet called atten- 

 tion to " that most agreeable book, the Life of 

 Bishop Ward (by Dr. Walter Pope), of which a 

 new edition has long been a desideratum," and 

 styled Pope, " the Boswell of the seventeenth cen- 

 tury." (Worthington's Life, vol. i. pp. 67. 303. 

 See the Indexes to both volumes, which contain 

 many interesting notices of Ward.) That Pope's 

 book in the original is not very readily procurable 

 I can witness from my own experience ; nor can 

 Mr. Cassan's reprint (in his Lives of the Bishops 

 of Sherborne and Salisbury) be said to have ren- 

 dered a new edition superfluous : for though he 

 lias added a few minute particulars, he has en- 

 tirely omitted one whole chapter ; besides, his 

 books are so clumsy as to repel ordinary readers. 

 If well edited, however, and joined with Dr. Wal- 

 lis's autobiographical letter, and one or two other 

 original documents relating to the founders of the 

 Royal Society and their fellow- students, there can 

 be little doubt that the Life of Ward would form 

 a volume not less attractive to " the general 

 reader" than useful to the student of scientific 

 and literary history. For such an edition, the 

 General Dictionary, the Biographia Britannica, 

 the collections of Salmon and Chalmers, Aubrey's 

 Lives, and the Diaries of Evelyn and Pepys (see 

 the Indexes to the last three), would of course be 

 laid under contribution ; but it may be worth while 

 more distinctly to refer to some less obvious ma- 

 terials. 



In common with WalHs, Wilkins, and Owen, 

 Ward rescued the Commissioners for depriving 

 '•scandalous" and inefficient ministers from the 



disgrace of ejecting the learned Pocock {Lives of 

 Focock, Pedrce, Sfc, vol. i. p. 174. Compare tho 

 case of the Idle Minister, Francis Gouldman, in 

 "N. & Q."2"<i S. iii. 86.). 



If Ward's treatment of N'onconformists varied 

 from time to time, we would fain conclude from 

 his general character and from the solemn assever- 

 ation of his biographer, that harsh measures were 

 forced upon him " by express command from the 

 court," and that his own bent was towards cle- 

 mency. On this point I have met with the fol- 

 lowing evidence : — 



" In the latter end of this year [1670], the bishops and 

 their agents gave out their great fears of popery, and 

 greatly lamented that the Dutchess of York was turned 

 papist, and thereupon gave out that they greatly desired 

 that some of the presbyterians (as they called even the 

 episcopalian nonconformists) might b}' some abatement 

 of the new oaths and subscriptions have better invitation 

 to conform in other things : Bishop Morlej', Uishop Ward, 

 and Bishop Dolbin spake ordinarily their desires of it; 

 but after long talk there is nothing done, which maketli 

 men variously interpret their pretensions, which time at 

 last will more certainly expound. Some think that they 

 are real in their desires, and that the hindrance is from 

 the court: And others say, they would never have been 

 the grand causes of our present case, if it had been against 

 their wilb, and that if they are yet trulj'- willing of any 

 healing, thev will shew it by more than their discourses." 

 — Baxter's 'Life, Part iii. § 179. p. 84. 



" This year [1671] Salisbury-Diocess was more fiercely 

 driven on to conformity bj' Dr. Seth Ward, their bishop, 

 than any place else, or than all the bishops in England 

 besides "did in theirs. Manj' hundreds were prosecuted 

 by him with great industry." — Ibid. § 185. p. 86. 



Similarly Calamy : — 



"His [C. South's] life was a constant scene of suffer- 

 ings J he being seldom free from presentments and in- 

 dictments in the civil courts, or citations and excommuni- 

 cations from the spiritual courts; especially in Bishop 

 Ward's time; who, notwithstanding he had been his fel- 

 low collegiate and acquaintance, let him alone to suffer 

 the uttermost ; aud was, for severity towards all of his 

 stamp, without intermission." — Account, Sfc, 2nd edit, 

 p. 761. 



The story told of his treatment of Richard Bin- 

 more may perhaps admit of a charitable inter- 

 pretation if read to the end. Mr. Binmore was to 

 be sent thirty miles to Exeter gaol for preaching 

 a funei'al sermon : — 



" But the constable giving him leave to see the bishop 

 before he went to prison, after long waiting for him, he 

 came "flown; and when he knew his name and his busi- 

 ness, ' Sirrah,' said he, ' How durst you preach in my Dio- 

 cess without my Leave?' and gave liim half-a-dozen 

 Sirrahs, at so many questions: and yet at last he told 

 him he should but inrich him to send him to the gaol."— 

 Ibid., pp. 245, 246. 



See other instances in Calamy's Continuation, 

 pp. 332. 336. 339. (in p. 705. it is said that several 

 churches in his diocese were left altogether un- 

 served). 



His relations with other Nonconformists were 

 happier : e. g. Janeway was his pupil (Clarke's 

 Lives of Eminent Divines, 1683, vol. ii. p. 61.) ; 



